Robot foundation models, embodied AI, machine vision and the lab work teaching machines to see, plan and act.
Thirty machines from 16 companies enrolled at the Hangzhou Robot School on 29 June. They sit an entrance check, train in one of four departments, take a real-scene assessment, and leave with a graded certificate and a code tied to the individual machine.
Google DeepMind's new robot models control a full humanoid rather than its upper body, run three different machines from one checkpoint, and let two robots divide a job between them. The company's own results say fine multi-finger work is still the hard part.
Mistral AI released Robostral Navigate on 8 July, an eight billion parameter model that guides robots through natural language task instructions using a single RGB camera.
Two peer-reviewed studies from Waymo map human fatal crash risk by city, road type and hour of the day, and find the single national average that self-driving safety claims lean on hides both the safest and the most dangerous driving in America.
Chinese startup Agibot staged a live robot-led show featuring over 200 humanoids from its A2, X2, G2, and D1 series performing autonomously under broadcast conditions.
